For nearly 300 years, thousands of couples eloped to a small Derbyshire village, as Barrie Farnsworth…
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Patrick Coleman talks exclusively to Chatsworth’s retired ‘gentleman-chauffeur’, Joe Oliver. THERE are not many people on…
Patrick Coleman looks at how two more of the county’s settlements have changed over the…
A group of pensioners turned the clock back 50-plus years in Matlock last month, as…
One hundred years ago this month, fighting in World War One came to an end.…
Nearly 200 years after a Derbyshire writer tried and failed to produce a complete history…
Chris Loveridge spent most of his remarkable life in the trenches – through two wars…
Patrick Coleman looks how farming has changed over the last century. IF there’s one thing…
A group of ‘cemetery friends’ have made some remarkable discoveries about some remarkable local women,…
The bravery of Derbyshire men proved the deciding factor in a 12th Century civil war,…